Data Journalist, BBC Verify

As one of BBC Verify’s specialist data journalists, you will be a self-starter, full of ideas on how to find and tell stories using data.

Job Requisition ID: 48673

Job Closing Date: 2 August 2026.

Birmingham, GBR, B1 1AY

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term – Full Time (September 2026 – February 2027)

DEPARTMENT: BBC News

LOCATION: The Mailbox, Birmingham, B1 1AY

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,000 – £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

The role is based in Birmingham and we adopt a hybrid working pattern including regular office days.

Interviews for this role will be held remotely on 12 August 2026.

PURPOSE OF ROLE

As one of BBC Verify’s specialist data journalists, you will be a self-starter, full of ideas on how to find and tell stories using data. Your work will range from quick-turnaround data visualisation of new data and statistics to collaborations on original stories with specialist teams from across BBC News and longer-term exclusive investigations.

You will be able to delve beneath headline figures then confidently and succinctly explain the fuller picture to our audiences as well as colleagues from BBC News.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

BBC Verify is made up of investigative journalists who use enhanced editorial tools, technology and techniques to investigate, source and verify information, video and images to “show what we know”.

The data journalism team, based in Birmingham and London, focusses on telling stories with numbers: national and international projects in collaboration with story teams across BBC News.

Recent examples of our work include:

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Contribute to award-winning data journalism projects across BBC platforms.
• Develop content for digital, social media, TV, and radio audiences.
• Collaborate with journalists, correspondents, designers, and engineers to create engaging multi-platform storytelling experiences.
• Produce data-driven interactives and visualisations.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience in a dedicated data journalist role
• An understanding of statistics and statistical analysis
• Ability to clean, parse and query data using R and Excel
• Demonstrable experience of originating story ideas using data
• Demonstrable experience of visualising data, including using tools such as Flourish / Datawrapper

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.